Bank robber Ashraf Sekkaki uses helicopter to escape from Bruges jail

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A daring helicopter jailbreak, in which three hardened criminals escaped, left the Belgian prison service with an embarrassing sense of d?jà vu yesterday.

A hijacked helicopter was used in the raid on the prison in Bruges in a copy of a break-out from the country’s highest security prison two years ago and which the authorities vowed would never happen again.

All prison yards were supposed to have helicopter-proof netting installed to prevent a repeat of the escape of Nordin Benallal, who spent two days on the run after two armed colleagues landed in the exercise area of Ittre prison, south